virid means green, verdant. It carries an Arena rating of 1515, earned across 4 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, virid ranks #2,374 of 17,120 for Most Beautiful Words, #4,374 of 17,115 for Most Vivid Words, #4,790 of 17,122 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound, #6,202 of 17,123 for Most Malleable Words.
virid is pronounced /ˈvɪɹɪd/.
Why “virid” is a great word
Of a vivid green color, like fresh vegetation. From Middle English viride, borrowed from Latin viridis ('green, fresh, youthful'), from vireō ('to be green, to sprout'), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weys- ('to produce, to increase'), with first known use in English as an adjective circa 1600. Unlike 'verdant' (which insists on lush, fertile plant growth and the promise of harvest) or 'olive' (which suggests the dull, martial, or culinary), virid is the unalloyed essence of the color itself—pure chromatic voltage, the green of things that have just happened to become green. It is the shocking brilliance of a new leaf against dark soil, the cool gleam of malachite held to light, and the luminous trace of algae in a tide pool—the very shade of life insisting upon itself, a reminder that color precedes meaning.
Etymology
From Middle English viride (“verdigris”, adjective, noun) [and other forms] + English -id (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives and nouns). Viride is borrowed from Latin viridis (“green; (figuratively) fresh; lively; young, youthful”), from vireō (“to be green or verdant; to sprout new green growth; to flourish; to be lively or vigorous”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to procreate; to produce; to increase; to raise”). Doublet of verdant and vert.
noun
- A green colour.e.g.“In January 1208 the king ordered for a chaplain a robe of virid or burnet with a hood of coney skin 'like our other chaplains', […]”
- Any of a group of related viruses.
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